Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Time for a few items today

My Marine buddies, Bill and Kerry, came to town, admired the
scenery, refought the Vietnam war, solved several of the world’s problems and
assisted brewery workers. They are now back on the road, so pulling a few items
from Email for you. ~Bob

Neat.... low income people with kids make out on this plan,
the middle
and upper class people with jobs and no kids will be paying more so those
lower income people can have coverage. This is wealth transfer for sure. –Del. Not sure I’d trust
anything on the Clinton News Network. Doesn’t include all the hits on the
economy and jobs we all will pay more, low income folks especially. ~Bob

Stop
donating to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, says
Clarissa Dickson Wright

Excerpt:
Her comments follow the refusal of the Archbishop of Canterbury to take up the
role of vice-patron and add to the deepening row over whether the charity,
which is funded by donations, has become too politicised. People should stop
donating until the charity returns to helping domestic animals, she said,
adding: “They have got plenty of money.”

Why The "Young Invincibles" Won't Participate In
The ObamaCare Exchanges and Why It Matters. By David Hogberg, Ph.D.

Excerpt: his study finds that in 2014 many single people
aged 18-34 who do not have children will have a substantial financial incentive
to forego insurance on the exchanges and instead pay the individual mandate penalty
of $95 or one percent of income. About 3.7 million of those ages 18-34 will be
at least $500 better off if they forgo insurance and pay the penalty. More than
3 million will be $1,000 better off if they go the same route. This raises the
likelihood that an insufficient number of young and healthy people will
participate in the exchanges, thereby leading to a death spiral.

Excerpt:
From Ivo: These disparate movements, beliefs and creeds confer a sense of
exclusivity, superiority and appeal to those otherwise lacking self-esteem. It
calls to the outsider and reinforces his or her sense of frustration with their
ordinary fellow citizens who will not acknowledge their special status - their
gnosis.

Excerpt: For the life of me, I can’t figure out why any
business would post a “gun-free zone” sign at their entrance. Recently, I went
into a store here in Georgia,
and there was a sign next to the door that proudly proclaimed that they didn’t
allow any guns on their premises. I felt a slight tinge of fear as I walked in.
I didn’t have a gun with me, and I knew if a robber or murderer wanted to
commit a crime, he’d look for the gun-free zone signs.

Excerpt:
Women in Mexico
have had enough and aredoing somethingabout their communities
being overrun with cartels, criminals and drug lords. More than 100 women in
the southern Mexican town of Xaltianguis
have taken up arms to protect their community from organized crime groups, a
local self-defense force official saidMonday.

Excerpt: Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject
the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens.
After CNN's Piers Morgan's interview with the key witness in the George
Zimmerman trial, he said: "Rachel Jeantel is not uneducated. She's a smart
cookie." That's a remarkable conclusion. Here's a 19-year-old young lady,
still in high school, who cannot read cursive and appears to be barely
literate. Morgan may have meant Jeantel is smart -- for a black person. … Dr.
Williams serves on the faculty of GeorgeMasonUniversity
as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and is the author of 'Race
and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?' and 'Up from the
Projects: An Autobiography.' (Williamsis black, before you cry racist. ~Bob)

Excerpt:
But those successes don’t subtract from the fact that Washington news is a loss leader for most
mainstream newspapers. The same is largely true of international and national
news. No mass audience is willing to directly pay for such news outside of the
one already served by theNew
York Times(combined daily
print and digitalcirculation, 1,865,318).

Excerpt:
Arab countries are stepping up to provide aid pulled by Obama. Astonishingly,
they are the good guys, whereas the US government is backing Islamic
terrorist insurgents. Unlike Obama, Arab nations want to arrest the spread of
radical Islam so that the entire Middle East doesn’t turn into a giant seething
Iran.

Illegal
immigrants demand US
taxpayers pay for their organ transplants.

Getting tough on crime. ~Bob. Excerpt: Long-time farmer,
Alvin Schlangen, was convicted by a jury of 6 on five charges related to
feeding his community. The conviction came on August 15 after a 3-day trial.
Schlangen offered members of the private buying club, Freedom Farms Co-op, the
benefit of his volunteer delivery service as he picked up members’ food items,
including raw milk, from other farms and delivered it along with products from
his Freeport
farm.

Excerpt: This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory,
“Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its
sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are
distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing
arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local
retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales.

Excerpt: If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to
rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week
the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule
that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches. (Just so they
don’t tell my wife about Bubbles and Trixie. ~Bob)

Excerpt:
Via The Hill: Clyburn singled out “extreme right-wing” bloggers in particular
for criticism. He accused such bloggers of forcing Shirley Sherrod to resign
from the Department of Agriculture after misrepresenting statements she made to
make her appear racially biased. He also said they had libeled the progressive
group ACORN, leading to the group’s disbandment. (He found me out. I’m sending
him to the camps today. ~Bob.)

Excerpt:
"It was really about moving forward,” Theresa Mueller, a spokeswoman for
the University of
Denver, told FoxNews.com.
Moving forward toward what? What kind of future does a society have if it lets
itself be ruled by people who find it offensive?

Excerpt:
Geert Wilders and Heinz-Christian Strache have both been ostracized for many
years by the legacy media. Each has been demonized as “extreme-right”,
“neo-fascist”, and even “neo-Nazi”, despite the fact that both are staunch
champions of our traditional freedoms, civil liberties, and human rights. Both
men agreed that instead of taking the media reports for granted, they needed to
meet in person and become acquainted with one another.

Excerpt:
In Australia, moonbats like former Australian deputy prime minister Tim Fischer
are milking the Chris Lane shooting for all they can get, calling for aboycottof travel to the
USA to punish us for upholding the right to bear arms. But it wasn’t a gun that
killed Chris Lane
for no particular reason so much as it was an ideology and a subculture, both
exported from corrupted parts of the country into the otherwise decent town of Duncan, Oklahoma.Colin Flahertyhad a look at alleged triggerman
Chancey Luna’s Facebook page:

Excerpt:
Gang violence has brought Chicago
to its knees, as innocent blackchildrenare
caught in the crossfire of shootouts between rival gangs on a regular basis.
Citizens in these communities live in constant fear of reprisal if they talk to
law enforcement, a deeply disturbing trend that gangsta rap culture helps to
foster in the form of the "Stop Snitching" mantra, heard in songs and
seen ont-shirtsand in
videos. There are countless cases of black kids being maimed or killed for
refusing to join a gang, leaving a gang, or "ratting" on a gang
member.

Excerpt:
The far left and its compliant mainstream media contingent reached out a hand to
bring Al Jazeera all the way from Doha,
Qatar
headquarters into American front rooms—starting this afternoon. Al Jazeera America begins
broadcasting today. The network once called ‘Osama bin Laden’s network’ is
being sold to American masses as “14 hours of straight news everyday,
hard-hitting documentaries, correspondences in oft-overlooked corners of the
country.

Allen
West on 'bored' teen murderers: Who will President Obama identify with in
this case? By Caroline May

Excerpt:
“[S]hall we hear anything from the race industry crew, Hollywood
elites, or maybe Oprah Winfrey? The issue is not about proliferation of guns in
America.
This is about a failing black community and the fact that its young men are desensitized
to violence because a gangsta culture promotes it,” West wrote onFacebook, reiterating
his Twitter question.

Excerpt:
Anti-Al Jazeera posters have recently appeared in Egypt saying, “A bullet kills a
man, a lying camera kills a nation.” This attitude led to the new government
closing the channel, after 22 staffers quit in disgust over its pro-Muslim
Brotherhood bias. Al Jazeera is the voice of the Muslim Brotherhood, the
group now laying siege to Egypt
and burning Christian churches there.

Excerpt:
Monarchy is the natural order of things, which is why, as Ben Franklin grasped,
the tricky bit about a republic is keeping it. Franklin didn't live to see how that panned
out. He died in 1790, a year after the first inauguration, back when John Adams
was proposing that George Washington be addressed as "Your Most Benign
Highness."

Excerpt: He and his wife bought land and built their home
for $360,000 in 1985. The property was valued at slightly more than $1.1
million during last year's township-wide revaluation, which increased his
property taxes nearly 60 percent to $31,056. The 71-year-old mayor tells The
Press of Atlantic City he thought he'd be able to live and die in his home.

Excerpt:
Dozens of Christian churches in Egypt
have been destroyed and torched as a result of the violence.On Sunday, one
Christian churchcanceled Mass for the first time in
1,600 years. "As a Christian, I don't think there's any
way that you can ignore the idea that fellow Christians are being
persecuted," said Williams.

What
we lose if we give up privacy: a civil libertarian reflects on the dangers of
the surveillance state. By Peggy Noonan

Excerpt:
[Nat Hentoff] is 88 now and on fire on the issue of privacy. "The media
has awakened," he told me. "Congress has awakened, to some
extent." Both are beginning to realize "that there are particular
constitutional liberty rights that [Americans] have that distinguish them from
all other people, and one of them is privacy."

Bishop
of Andropoli: Christians and Muslims united to save Egypt from Muslim Brotherhood.

Excerpt:
"A revolution took place on30 Junein order
to avoid the destruction of our country and the army and for the first time the
police sided with the people. Everyone, women, men, seniors, children, imams and
Christian priests marched together without fighting. I was among the protesters
and I witnessed this atmosphere of friendship and unity".

Excerpt:De Standaardexplainsthat
in recent months, Belgian police and intelligence services have found that in
several cases, Belgian nationals fighting alongside Syrian rebels continued to
receive social welfare payments, including unemployment benefit.
“Notwithstanding major upset over the issue in the Muslim community, there will
be further departures” for Syria,
declared the mayor of Vilvoorde.

Excerpt:
According to Belgian media reports on August 19, the Flemish cities of Antwerp and Vilvoorde
have indeed deleted 29 such presumed jihadists from lists of individuals
receiving social benefits from the state. The official reason given for the
move was that these people no longer lived at their registered address.
Investigations carried out by city authorities found that the presumed
jihadists had been accessing their Belgian savings by withdrawing money from
banks in Turkey,
just across the Syrian border.

Wow, in this four minute dance and lecture, she really comes
down hard on Obama. No mincing words for her, she goes right for the jugular. Clearly
she is of the party that wanted Morsi out and is against the Muslim
Brotherhood. So she is brave to make this video, because the Brotherhood guys
will be gunning for her. Literally. And interesting intro to Egyptian politics.
--Del

United Parcel
Service Inc. plans to remove thousands of spouses from its
medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere. The
Atlanta-based logistics company points to the Affordable Care Act, or
Obamacare, as a big reason for the decision, reports Kaiser Health News.